Minor Robberies
Minor Robberies was published by McSweeney’s Press as a book in a box with two other books, all story collections. The box is titled 145 Stories in a Small Box, and the two other books are How the Water Feels to the Fishes by Dave Eggers and Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape by Sarah Manguso.
“Unferth’s accomplished miniatures … are alluring—you feel them as deeply and definitely as glass splinters, but they don’t let you see how they do it.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Unferth’s genre-busting Minor Robberies specializes in dark fairy-tale-like stories and wickedly clever narratives…Unferth captures a distinctly tragic and funny off-kilter world.”
—TimeOut New York
“Minor Robberies reads strong and surprising and strange…a hilarious weigh-in on history, politics, philosophy, and psychological dispositions.”
—Elle Magazine
“Minor Robberies marks the book-debut of an already mature and deeply talented writer.”
—Review of Contemporary Fiction
“This project makes us re-imagine how fiction moves us with its stories built less on action than on inference.”
—Los Angeles Times Magazine